Partition-support.



No. 866 881. PATENTED SEPT. 24, 1907. c. I. PARKER.

PARTITION. SUPPORT.

APPLIOATION IILED MAR. 20. 1907 WWW) Y 7 M1 72% c'hqrleslParler UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES IRVING PARKER, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO RUSSELL & ERWIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORA- TION OF CONNECTICUT.

PARTITION-SUPPORT No. 866,881. Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Sept. 24:, 1907.

Application filed March 20,1907. Serial No. 363,398.

To all whom it may concern: wardly, as at to project into the floor, as shown in Be it known that I, CHARLES IRVING PARKER, a citi- Figs. 1, 2 and 6. A screw-driver slit or slits may be zen of the United States, residing at New Britain, provided in this adjustable support whereby the workcounty of Hartford, Connecticut, have invented cerman may readily adjust the same accurately to the de- 5 tain new and useful Improvements in Partition-Supsired height.

ports, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact In Fig. (i I have shown a construction in which the description. I lower end of the post 1 has a rib-like extension 1 ar- My invention relates to improvements in partition ranged to take into the support 5 so that by turning supports, the object being to provide an adjustable the post l the adjustment may be effected without the support whereby any unevenness in the floor may be employment of a screw-driver or other tool. compensated for in the support proper without the use Any suitable means may be provided for anchoring of wedges and the like. the base socket 3 in place against lateral movement, In the drawings, Figure 1 is a side elevation of a parbut in the preferred form this is accomplished by tition support partly broken away in the center. Fig, means of the extension 5. It should be understood 2 is a similar view, the upper part being broken away that I have shown only the preferred form of the invenand showing the lower part in section. Fig. 3 is a side tion, and that the same may be modified in various elevation of a detail. Fig. 4 is a view of the under side ways. i of the supporting device. Fig. 5 is a plan view of the What I claim is: detail shown in Fig. 3. Fig. 6 is a view of a slight modi- In {1 Partition pp the Combination Of H Dost, {l fication p y in Section flanged base adapted to receive the post, an adjustable 1 is the usual tubular post or support having at its i i j d leangvon a E engaging said support to ad ust the same, and means car upper end the saddle 2 of suitable form to receive the ried by the support to prevent lateral movement of the partition proper. In partitions of this type there is base a space between the lower part of the partition proper In a lml'fition P g Post a flanged F and the floor, and in setting up such partitions it is the r 001' pmvlded i Sock-Qt to receive f post, an ad ustable support within said socket engaging ry, g to the fact that floors, particularly the end of the post and adapted to adjust the same in cement floors, are slightly uneven, to take up such unrelation to the floor. and means carried by the support to evenness by means Oi Wedges skimming. jdevices prevent the longitudinal movement of said base. Such 9 a makeshlfi" devlce" gaging the floor provided with a socket to receive said y y mventlon the Partltlon pp P p y be post. a screw-threaded adjustable support engaging a adjusted 0 a nicety, so as to compensate fOI' these corresponding screw-threaded portion in said socket adaptvariations found in the floor, or, in fact, in the partition ed change the relation of the Post to the 11001: means carried by the post to adjust said support, and means 3. In a partition support, a post, a flanged base ou ltsel? carried by said support to prevent longitudinal movement 3 1S a base arranged to rest upon the floor 4 and to of Said bass furnish the support for the post 1. This base 3 is of I11 11 partition pp a p a flanged base gaging the floor provided with a socket to receive and socket form, the post 1 projecting into said socket so support the sald post, an ad ustable support wltlun said :as to receive suflicient support from the side as well as from below. to adjust said post by rotation of said base, and means :5 is a movable base screw-threaded within the socket carried y the pp to p v the longitudinal ovef3 and supporting directly the end of post 1. This ment or the buse' support 5 may be raisedand lowered by turning the 31-1 s IRVING PARKER same in the socket, so that the desired adjustment Witnesses, may be secured. To prevent lateral displacement, the s, WIARD,

lower end of the support .15 may be extended down- W. F SH- socket, means carried by said post engaging said support 

